"Opera singer Meaghan
Heath...hit the high notes as she serenaded the nearly 500 lively
celebrants. [Pompeii Posh Gala Event at Museum of Natural Science in
Houston]"

Biography

Meaghan Heath, Australian-American mezzo-soprano has continued to gain
acclaim as a promising young opera singer.

Most recently, Ms. Heath made her professional opera debut as an
Apprentice Artist for the Sarasota
Opera’s 2012 Winter Season. She also covered the
role of Dorabella for Opera
in the Heights’s 2011 production of Cosi fan
Tutte. When she is in her hometown of Houston, Texas, she frequently
performs in outreach performances and concerts for Opera Vista. In
2011, she participated in Opera
Vista’s competition for contemporary chamber
opera where she premiered an excerpt from Matthew Peterson’s
new opera Voir Dire; consequently, this excerpt was deemed the winner
of the Opera Vista
Competition.

Ms. Heath received her Masters degree at the Butler School of Music
where she performed the roles of Hansel in Hansel and Gretel,
Nancy in Albert Herring,
Dionisia in Robert Rodriguez’s La Curandera, and
Riina in Rautavaara’s House
of the Sun (which she also performed in Helsinki, Finland)
at the McCullough Theater.
In 2007 she participated in the training program, the Italian Operatic
Experience, where she sang the roles of La zia Principessa in Suor Angelica and
Zita in Gianni Schicchi
at the Teatro Bramante in Urbania, Italy. During 2008, 2009, and 2011,
she starred at the intensive training program and opera festival Opera in the Ozarks
as Cherubino in Le
Nozze di Figaro, Meg in Little Women, Nancy
in Albert Herring,
Hansel in Hansel and
Gretel, Javotte in Manon,
and Pitti-sing in The
Mikado.

Meaghan Heath has performed the roles of Sister Mathilde in Dialogues of the Carmelites,
Molly in The Three
Penny Opera, Suora Chiara in Suor Angelica, and
the Old Irish Woman in Riders
to the Sea at Northwestern
University in Chicago, IL where she graduated with a
Bachelor of Music in Voice and Opera Performance, a Certificate in
Musical Theater, and musical honors. A native Houstonian, Ms. Heath
received a Voice Performance Diploma at the High School for the Performing
and Visual Arts in 2003 which ignited her passion for a
career in opera.

Meaghan Heath began her singing career almost exclusively as a duettist
with her sister, soprano Rebecca Heath, performing mostly Australian
folk music and American popular and Broadway tunes. Together they have
had varied experience, such as singing on Australian National
television for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, opening the Australian Consulate
at the Baker Institute,
performing at the three-day annual Embassy
Flower Mart event at the National Cathedral
in Washington D.C., and were the opening act for the famous Australian
act, Pot Pourri,
as well as the Asian
Society Gala at the Ritz
Carlton. In May of 2010, the Heath Sisters performed a
Duet Benefit Concert, “Moments of Beauty,” for the Lady of Walsingham Institutes
of Catholic Culture Studies in Houston.